After waiting for nearly 5 minutes, Chen Xin did not give any new orders, and Chief of Staff Liu, Zachdan, Fu Yan and others all had gloomy faces and were silent.

Since they received Gao Hongzhong's secret hint and learned the news that Dolgon was preparing to retreat today, they have been bringing a group of staff officers with them for the past two days, and they have excitedly formulated a series of meticulous attack plans, preparing to draw a successful end to the Lushun Battle with a hearty pursuit battle.

But now, the sudden foggy weather in front of them has made all their previous efforts and plans in vain.

Attacking in such bad weather is an extremely severe test for any army, and in such a complex battlefield environment, even the most unexpected small situation may cause the collapse of an army.

Such examples are definitely not uncommon in history.

At this time, I suddenly heard a trumpet in the distance, which was a voice signal from Huaxia's scouts, explaining to the command behind that the Jin army had moved.

Soon, cavalry galloped in, reporting that part of the Houjin army had left the camp, but because of the fog, the specific direction of the enemy's movement was not clear.

Chen Xin was very hesitant in his heart, even if he fought for so long, the Houjin Army still had an absolute advantage in terms of total strength, and if the line of sight was good, it would be good to say that the various advanced weapons of the Huaxia Army could ensure that their own side had the strength to fight to a certain extent.

However, even if the weather was the most favorable to the Huaxia army, there was no way to guarantee that the Huaxia army would be able to achieve an absolute victory in a head-on confrontation with the enemy's large army.

In general, in a word, the overall strategic initiative is in the hands of the Huaxia Army, but when it comes to the frontal battlefield, the initiative is not entirely on Chen Xin's side.

If you want to act in such foggy weather, you will be ambushed by the enemy, and under such conditions, it is difficult for the Huaxia Army's positional warfare and firepower superiority, which is best at it, to be thoroughly brought into play.

On the Tartar side, those skirmishers' combat skills that had been trained in fishing and hunting activities were easier to maximize to the fullest.

Although the Huaxia Army has also specially trained skirmish-style combat skills in its usual training, and the soldiers also have a certain degree of skirmisher combat ability, there is still a certain gap between them and the stragglers who have been trained since childhood in the Houjin Army.

It is still unknown how much that little incidental skirmish combat capability can be exerted in a pursuit battle under such complex weather conditions.

Among the captives of the Chinese army, there are also some veterans of the Ming army during the Battle of Sarhu, and these veterans are usually asked to talk about the specific situation of the battle.

According to the veterans, during the Battle of Salhu, the Houjin army used the foggy weather to attack, and it was because of the cover of the weather that they were able to break the strongest Juniper all the way in the Ming army at that time.

Judging from this information, the Houjin Army has clearly demonstrated its combat capability in such bad weather conditions, so there are always some worries in Chen Xinxin, and he is now hesitant whether he should invest in the main force to fight the Houjin Army in this weather.

In fact, the current situation is completely different from what Chen Xin had imagined when he made the plan before.

The original plan of Chen Xin, Chief of Staff Liu, Za Kedan, Fu Yan and others was to wait for the Jin army to officially begin to withdraw and lengthen the overall formation, and then order the whole army to attack and pursue the enemy from behind.

When the time comes, all forces will be spared, and even the infantry, which is obviously slow on the march, will be sent together to provide strong fire cover for the cavalry and mounted infantry.

When Chen Xin read some military books in later generations, he always saw a sentence to see whether an army was well-trained, as long as he looked at their retreat, he could understand it.

No matter what kind of army it is, it will take a lot of time to move from a marching state to a battle formation, and once the Houjin army is dragged halfway by the Huaxia army, it is really more dangerous than being dragged near the Lushun defense line.

Because, in this place of Lushun, they still have at least a strong fortress built by more than 100,000 slaves and Baoyi for more than a month, which can be used as a fortification. But halfway down the road, they no longer had a strong camp to cover for.

Coupled with the fact that the whole army was in a state of extreme anxiety and anxiety during the retreat, fearing that it would be abandoned by the large army, all this showed that the pursuit battle was a good opportunity to expand the results of the battle and completely defeat Houjin.

After doing so much analysis, Chen Xin himself did think that at this time, there was a great chance that he could bite off a piece of Houjin's flesh, even if he couldn't completely annihilate the enemy, at least he could inflict heavy damage on the enemy, so that the enemy would not be able to recover for a long time.

But now, with this foggy weather, everything is different, and the scouts on the front line, as well as the falcons hovering in the sky, have no way to observe the specific movements of the Houjin army. And the commanders of the Huaxia Army in the early rear had no way to make a judgment without real and effective intelligence.

Unable to obtain the enemy's intelligence, there is no way to give full play to the intelligence superiority of the Huaxia Army since the beginning of the Battle of Lushun.

What if the men and horses who came out of the camp before the Houjin Army just shook a shot under the noses of the scouts of the Huaxia Army, and then found a place to dig a pit and wait for the Huaxia Army to jump inside?

Many of the Houjin Tatar cavalry were inherently more mobile than the Huaxia army, and once they really thought so, the advantage accumulated in the early stage of the Lushun Battle was likely to be reversed by one move.

It's not that Chen Xin is worried about the sky, but in such bad weather conditions, if you still have to fight this kind of chaotic battle, anything can happen during the battle.

If Chen Xin ordered the whole army to attack according to the original plan, he might have won a brilliant victory and gained a huge advantage for Huaxia, but in the same way, it was also very likely that he would suffer a major defeat, not to mention the loss of troops, and all the advantages accumulated in the early stage would be buried.

When Chen Xin had no capital in his hands, he dared to use 200 cavalry to attack the camp garrisoned by tens of thousands of Korean officers and soldiers, because at that time Chen Xin was basically barefoot, as long as it was to overthrow Houjin, he dared to go into battle in person.

But now the situation is different, he is already the king of a country, and he is no longer 200 singles with nothing, just by his side, there are nearly 10,000 soldiers, and these soldiers are basically the pillars of the family.

If there is a chance of winning more than 50%, then Chen Xin doesn't mind fighting, but now, he is really not sure that he can win, and he must think about these fighters under his hands.